Strike hit near Hizbullah weapons depots, says monitoring group, while Syrian state media says civilians among the dead
Israel and Hizbullah have been trading fire across the Israel-Lebanon border since the war erupted in Gaza. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images“At least 36 soldiers were killed and dozens wounded,” said the group, which has an extensive network of sources in . The targeted area is located near Aleppo’s international airport, it said, adding the area targeted was “near rockets depots belonging to Lebanese group Hizbullah”.
The Syrian defence ministry said earlier on Friday that a number of civilians and military personnel were killed after Israel and militant groups launched attacks against Aleppo.Refusal to allow in adequate aid to starving Gazans is ‘criminal’, Tánaiste saysThe Israeli air strikes targeted several areas in Aleppo’s countryside at about 1.45am local time, the ministry said a statement.
“The aggression resulted in the martyrdom and injury of a number of civilians and military personnel and caused material losses to public and private property,” the statement said.Since the October 7th attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians and soldiers, Israel has escalated its strikes on what it says are bases of Iranian-backed militia in Syria. It has also struck Syrian army air defences and some Syrian forces.
Fighters allied with Iran, including Hizbullah, now hold sway in vast areas of eastern, southern and northwestern Syria and in several suburbs around the capital.
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